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Hiroki
How to Pronounce Hiroki
Pronounced hee-ROH-kee /hiˈroʊ.ki/Medium
Meaning: Hiroki is a Japanese boy's name whose meaning depends on the kanji a family chooses to write it. Common readings pair 'hiro', meaning wide, abundant, or great, with 'ki', which can carry senses such as joy, strength, timber, or radiance - so the name often reads as broad joy or great strength. The precise sense varies with the writing.Medium
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
SSA data updated May 2026. How we source & verify this data.
History & Origin
Hiroki is a well-established Japanese given name for boys, built from elements that a family selects in kanji to shape its exact meaning, commonly combining a sense of wide or abundant with joy, strength, or brightness. In the United States it appears as a heritage name within Japanese and Japanese-American families, which is why its modest record tracks that community.
Hiroki was never common in the United States, reaching only about twenty boys a year around its peak in 1991, almost entirely in Japanese-heritage families. A boy named Hiroki then is a young adult today.
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What does the name Hiroki mean?
It is a Japanese name whose meaning depends on the written characters, often read as abundant or great joy or strength.
How do you pronounce Hiroki?
It is said hee-ROH-kee /hiˈroʊ.ki/, three syllables with the stress in the middle.
Is Hiroki a boy or girl name?
Hiroki is used here as a boy's name.
How popular is Hiroki?
It has always been rare in the United States, given to only about twenty boys a year at its peak in the early nineteen-nineties, mostly in Japanese-heritage families.